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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Tadashi Ono, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1027 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/128 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 2212/68 (2013.01); G06F 2212/69 (2013.01); G06F 2212/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a memory device with improved memory region usage efficiency. The memory device includes flash memory including: a control information (FAT) region that stores FAT for a file and a user data (UD) region that stores UD; cache memory including a FAT cache region that stores all or part of the FAT; an I/F that receives a write command for writing one of the FAT and the UD; and a memory controller that determines whether write data to be written is the FAT or the UD based on an address included in the write command, and sets the size of the FAT cache region based on an update frequency or an update count for the address included in the write command for the write data determined to be the FAT by the determiner.


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